YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE
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SIGN – Any identification, description, illustration, symbol, or device which is affixed directly or
indirectly upon a building, vehicle, structure, or land and which conveys information identifying or
directing attention to or advertising a product, place, activity, person, institution, or business.
SLEEPING ROOM - A room, other than a guestroom, in which no cooking facilities are provided.
STEEL STORAGE CONTAINER – A steel structure sometimes referred to as a cargo container,
which is independent of any trailer or axles, and is commercially produced and designed for the purposes
of storage of personal or commercial belongings/products. Does not include tractor-trailers or boxcars.
STORY - That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the
next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next
above it. A basement, the ceiling of which is less than four feet six inches (4’6") above the natural grade
level, shall not be considered a floor. A mezzanine floor shall be considered a story if it exceeds an area
of forty percent (40%) of the area of the floor next below it.
STREET - A public passageway that affords a principal means of access to abutting property.
STRUCTURE - The result of arranging materials and parts together and attached to a lot (such as
buildings, tanks and fences), but not including amateur radio towers, tents or vehicles.
SUPERVISORS - BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF YAVAPAI COUNTY.
TIMESHARE – A project or use where a purchaser receives the right in perpetuity, for life or a term
of years to the recurrent, exclusive use or occupancy of a lot, parcel unit or segment or property, annually
or on some periodic basis, for a period of time that has been or will be allotted from the use or occupancy
periods into which the project has been divided.
TRAILER PARK - Same as MOBILE HOME or RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK (COURT).
TRAILER (PARK MODEL) - A park trailer built on a single chassis, mounted on wheels and designed
to be connected to utilities necessary for operation of installed fixtures and appliances and has a gross
trailer area of not less than three hundred twenty (320) square feet and not more than four hundred (400)
square feet when it is set up, and manufactured to comply with ANSI A119.5 standards, except that it
does not include recreational vehicles, travel trailers, campers or fifth wheel trailers.
TRAILER (TRAVEL) - A travel trailer mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, of a size or weight that may or may not require special
highway movement permits when towed by a motorized vehicle and has a trailer area of less than three
hundred twenty (320) square feet. This definition includes fifth wheel trailers and other like recreational
vehicles. (See also VEHICLE (RECREATIONAL))
USE - The purpose for which a building, or lot, or structure, is arranged, designed, occupied or
maintained.
USE (ACCESSORY) - A use incidental to the principal or primary use on the same lot.
USE (LEGAL NON-CONFORMING) - A use that lawfully occupied a building or land at the time
this Code or amendments thereto became effective, which has been lawfully continued and which does
not now conform with the use regulations.
USE (PERMITTED) - A use in a District, which is allowed by reason of being listed among the
"Permitted Uses" in the District.
USE (PRIMARY) - A use that is conducted as the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. For
example a single-family dwelling unit shall be deemed to be the primary use on a residentially zoned
parcel or lot on which the unit is situated.